Guy F. Midgley

TL;DR: The results suggest a switch from water-use to nitrogen-use efficiency constraints with increasing moisture availability in dominant woody plants in Botswana, southern Africa, which impact leaf form and function significantly, and may emerge at the ecosystem level in aspects of water and N cycling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors categorized recent range changes among 408 South African terrestrial bird species and, using generalized linear mixed models, analyzed ecological attributes of those species that have and have not changed their ranges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide preliminary estimates based on secondary data from the findings of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Study for the South African Country Study on Climate Change (1999).

TL;DR: This work aims to develop a physiologically based model of the plant niche for use in species distribution modelling and to demonstrate the ability of this model to improve the accuracy of existing models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a position paper, using a brief literature review and some new modelling results for a subset of succulent plant species, which explores why Namaqualand plant diversity might be particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change despite presumed species resilience under arid conditions, and therefore a globally important test-bed for adaptive conservation strategies.